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AGENCY:

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

This notice pertains to user fees for certain veterinary diagnostic services and to fees charged for agricultural quarantine and inspection services that are provided in connection with certain commercial vessels, commercial trucks, loaded commercial railroad cars, commercial aircraft, and international airline passengers arriving at ports in the Customs territory of the United States. The purpose of this notice is to remind the public of the user fees for fiscal year 2007 (October 1, 2006, through September 30, 2007).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Veterinary Diagnostic Services User Fees

User fees to reimburse APHIS for the costs of providing veterinary diagnostic services are contained in 9 CFR part 130 (referred to below as the regulations). These user fees are authorized by section 2509(c) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990, as amended (21 U.S.C. 136a), which provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may, among other things, prescribe regulations and collect fees to recover the costs of veterinary diagnostics relating to the control and eradication of communicable disease of livestock or poultry within the United States.

In a final rule published in the Federal Register on May 6, 2004 (69 FR 25305-25312, Docket No. 00-024-2), and effective June 7, 2004, we established, for fiscal years 2004 through 2007 and beyond, user fees for certain veterinary diagnostic services, including certain diagnostic tests, reagents, and other veterinary diagnostic materials and services. Veterinary diagnostics is the work performed in a laboratory to determine if a disease-causing organism or chemical agent is present in body tissues or cells and, if so, to identify those organisms or agents. Services in this category include: (1) Performing identification, serology, and pathobiology tests and providing diagnostic reagents and other veterinary diagnostic materials and services at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, IA; and (2) performing laboratory tests and providing diagnostic reagents and other veterinary diagnostic materials and services at the NVSL Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (NVSL FADDL) in Greenport, NY.

APHIS veterinary diagnostic user fees fall into six categories:

(1) Laboratory tests, reagents, and other veterinary diagnostic services performed at NVSL FADDL;

(2) Laboratory tests performed as part of isolation and identification testing at NVSL in Ames;

(3) Laboratory tests performed as part of serology testing at NVSL in Ames;

(4) Laboratory tests performed at the pathobiology laboratory at NVSL in Ames;

(5) Diagnostic reagents produced at NVSL in Ames or other authorized sites; and

(6) Other veterinary diagnostic services or materials provided at NVSL in Ames.

As specified in § 130.14(a), the user fees for diagnostic reagents provided by NVSL FADDL for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

Reagent

Unit

User fee

Bovine antiserum, any agent

1 mL

$165.00

Caprine antiserum, any agent

1 mL

202.00

Cell culture antigen/microorganism

1 mL

111.00

Equine antiserum, any agent

1 mL

204.00

Fluorescent antibody conjugate

1 mL

179.00

Guinea pig antiserum, any agent

1 mL

200.00

Monoclonal antibody

1 mL

243.00

Ovine antiserum, any agent

1 mL

193.00

Porcine antiserum, any agent

1 mL

167.00

Rabbit antiserum, any agent

1 mL

196.00

As specified in § 130.14(b), the user fees for veterinary diagnostic tests performed at NVSL FADDL for fiscal year 2007 are as follows: Start Printed Page 52053

Test

Unit

User fee

Agar gel immunodiffusion

Test

$33.00

Card

Test

18.00

Complement fixation

Test

40.00

Direct immunofluorescent antibody

Test

25.00

Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay

Test

29.00

Fluorescent antibody neutralization (classical swine fever)

Test

215.00

Hemagglutination inhibition

Test

63.00

Immunoperoxidase

Test

32.00

Indirect fluorescent antibody

Test

39.00

In-vitro safety

Test

630.00

In-vivo safety

Test

5,509.00

Latex agglutination

Test

26.00

Tube agglutination

Test

30.00

Virus isolation (oesophageal/pharyngeal)

Test

199.00

Virus isolation in embryonated eggs

Test

383.00

Virus isolation, other

Test

171.00

Virus neutralization

Test

58.00

As specified in § 130.14(c), the user fees for other veterinary diagnostic services performed at NVSL FADDL for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

Veterinary diagnostic service

Unit

User fee

Bacterial isolation

Test

$123.00

Hourly user fee services 1

Hour

492.00

Hourly user fee services—Quarter hour

Quarter hour

123.00

Infected cells on chamber slides or plates

Slide

53.00

Reference animal tissues for immunohistochemistry

Set

187.00

Sterilization by gamma radiation

Can

1,923.00

Training (school or technical assistance)

Per person per day

1,006.00

Virus titration

Test

123.00

1 For all veterinary diagnostic services for which there is no flat rate user fee, the hourly rate user fee will be calculated for the actual time required to provide the service.

As specified in § 130.15(a), the user fees for bacteriology isolation and identification tests performed at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other authorized sites for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

Test

Unit

User fee

Bacterial identification, automated

Isolate

$53.00

Bacterial identification, non-automated

Isolate

90.00

Bacterial isolation

Sample

36.00

Bacterial serotyping, all other

Isolate

55.00

Bacterial serotyping, Pasteurella multocida

Isolate

18.00

Bacterial serotyping, Salmonella

Isolate

36.00

Bacterial toxin typing

Isolate

120.00

Bacteriology requiring special characterization

Test

92.00

DNA fingerprinting

Test

59.00

DNA/RNA probe

Test

83.00

Fluorescent antibody

Test

19.00

Mycobacterium identification (biochemical)

Isolate

114.00

Mycobacterium identification (gas chromatography)

Procedure

96.00

Mycobacterium isolation, animal inoculations

Submission

837.00

Mycobacterium isolation, all other

Submission

151.00

Mycobacterium paratuberculosis isolation

Submission

72.00

Phage typing, all other

Isolate

42.00

Phage typing, Salmonella enteritidis

Isolate

24.00

As specified in § 130.15(b), the user fees for virology identification tests performed at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other authorized sites for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

Test

Unit

User fee

Fluorescent antibody tissue section

Test

$29.00

Virus isolation

Test

48.00

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As specified in § 130.16(a), the user fees for bacteriology serology tests performed at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other authorized sites for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

Test

Unit

User fee

Brucella ring (BRT)

Test

$36.00

Brucella ring, heat inactivated (HIRT)

Test

36.00

Brucella ring, serial (Serial BRT)

Test

54.00

Buffered acidified plate antigen presumptive

Test

7.00

Card

Test

4.00

Complement fixation

Test

16.00

Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay

Test

16.00

Indirect fluorescent antibody

Test

14.00

Microscopic agglutination—includes up to 5 serovars

Sample

24.00

Microscopic agglutination—each serovar in excess of 5 serovars

Sample

4.00

Particle concentration fluorescent immunoassay (PCFIA)

Test

36.00

Plate

Test

7.00

Rapid automated presumptive

Test

7.00

Rivanol

Test

7.00

Tube agglutination

Test

7.00

As specified in § 130.16(b), the user fees for virology serology tests performed at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or at authorized sites for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

Test

Unit

User fee

Agar gel immunodiffusion

Test

$16.00

Complement fixation

Test

16.00

Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay

Test

16.00

Hemagglutination inhibition

Test

14.00

Indirect fluorescent antibody

Test

14.00

Latex agglutination

Test

16.00

Peroxidase linked antibody

Test

15.00

Plaque reduction neutralization

Test

18.00

Rabies fluorescent antibody neutralization

Test

45.00

Virus neutralization

Test

13.00

As specified in § 130.17(a), the user fees for veterinary diagnostic tests performed at the Pathobiology Laboratory at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or at authorized sites for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

Test

Unit

User fee

Aflatoxin quantitation

Test

$30.00

Aflatoxin screen

Test

29.00

Agar gel immunodiffusion spp. identification

Test

13.00

Antibiotic (bioautography) quantitation

Test

65.00

Antibiotic (bioautography) screen

Test

119.00

Antibiotic inhibition

Test

65.00

Arsenic

Test

17.00

Ergot alkaloid screen

Test

65.00

Ergot alkaloid confirmation

Test

86.00

Feed microscopy

Test

65.00

Fumonisin only

Test

37.00

Gossypol

Test

98.00

Mercury

Test

145.00

Metals screen

Test

44.00

Metals single element confirmation

Test

13.00

Mycotoxin aflatoxin-liver

Test

119.00

Mycotoxin screen

Test

48.00

Nitrate/nitrite

Test

65.00

Organic compound confirmation

Test

88.00

Organic compound screen

Test

151.00

Parasitology

Test

29.00

Pesticide quantitation

Test

132.00

Pesticide screen

Test

60.00

pH

Test

26.00

Plate cylinder

Test

98.00

Selenium

Test

44.00

Silicate/carbonate disinfectant

Test

65.00

Temperature disks

Test

130.00

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Toxicant quantitation, other

Test

110.00

Toxicant screen, other

Test

33.00

Vomitoxin only

Test

53.00

Water activity

Test

33.00

Zearaleone quantitation

Test

53.00

Zearaleone screen

Test

29.00

As specified in § 130.18(a), the user fees for bacteriology reagents produced by the Diagnostic Bacteriology Laboratory at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other authorized sites for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

Reagent

Unit

User fee

Anaplasma card test antigen

2 mL

$95.00

Anaplasma card test kit without antigen

Kit

127.00

Anaplasma CF antigen

2 mL

46.00

Anaplasma stabilate

4.5 mL

175.00

Avian origin bacterial antiserums

1 mL

47.00

Bacterial agglutinating antigens other than brucella and salmonella pullorum

5 mL

54.00

Bacterial conjugates

1 mL

96.00

Bacterial disease CF antigens, all other

1 mL

29.00

Bacterial ELISA antigens

1 mL

29.00

Bacterial or protozoal, antiserums, all other

1 mL

60.00

Bacterial reagent culture 1

Culture

73.00

Bacterial reference culture 2

Culture

228.00

Bacteriophage reference culture

Culture

172.00

Bovine serum factor

1 mL

18.00

Brucella abortus CF antigen

60 mL

151.00

Brucella agglutination antigens, all other

60 mL

151.00

Brucella buffered plate antigen

60 mL

172.00

Brucella canis tube antigen

25 mL

109.00

Brucella card test antigen (packaged)

Package

90.00

Brucella card test kit without antigen

Kit

113.00

Brucella cells

Gram

18.00

Brucella cells, dried

Pellet

6.00

Brucella ring test antigen

60 mL

241.00

Brucella rivanol solution

60 mL

29.00

Dourine CF antigen

1 mL

89.00

Dourine stabilate

4.5 mL

109.00

Equine and bovine origin babesia species antiserums

1 mL

127.00

Equine negative control CF antigen

1 mL

281.00

Flazo-orange

3 mL

13.00

Glanders CF antigen

1 mL

77.00

Hemoparasitic disease CF antigens, all other

1 mL

540.00

Leptospira transport medium

10 mL

4.00

Monoclonal antibody

1 mL

95.00

Mycobacterium spp. old tuberculin

1 mL

24.00

Mycobacterium spp. PPD

1 mL

18.00

Mycoplasma hemagglutination antigens

5 mL

180.00

Negative control serums

1 mL

18.00

Rabbit origin bacterial antiserum

1 mL

52.00

Salmonella pullorum microagglutination antigen

5 mL

15.00

Stabilates, all other

4.5 mL

678.00

1 A reagent culture is a bacterial culture that has been subcultured one or more times after being tested for purity and identity. It is intended for use as a reagent with a diagnostic test such as the leptospiral microagglutination test.

2 A reference culture is a bacterial culture that has been thoroughly tested for purity and identity. It should be suitable as a master seed for future cultures.

As specified in § 130.18(b), the user fees for virology reagents produced by the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or at authorized sites for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

As specified in § 130.19(a), the user fees for other veterinary diagnostic services or materials available from NVSL (excluding FADDL) for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

Service

Unit

User fee

Antimicrobial susceptibility test

Isolate

$105.00

Avian safety test

Test

4,075.00

Check tests, culture

Kit 1

176.00

Check tests, serology, all other

Kit 1

361.00

Fetal bovine serum safety test

Verification

1,114.00

Hourly user fee services: 2

Hour

Hour

84.00

Quarter hour

Quarter hour

21.00

Minimum

25.00

Manual, brucellosis culture

1 copy

114.00

Manual, tuberculosis culture (English or Spanish)

1 copy

172.00

Manual, Veterinary mycology

1 copy

172.00

Manuals or standard operating procedure (SOP), all other

1 copy

34.00

Manuals or SOP, per page

1 page

2.00

Training (school or technical assistance)

Per person per day

331.00

1 Any reagents required for the check test will be charged separately.

2 For veterinary diagnostic services for which there is no flat rate user fee the hourly rate user fee will be calculated for the actual time required to provide the service.

Agricultural Quarantine and Inspection Services User Fees

User fees to reimburse APHIS for the costs of providing inspections of certain commercial conveyances are found in 7 CFR part 354 (referred to below as the regulations). These user fees are authorized by Section 2509(a) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (21 U.S.C. 136a), which authorizes APHIS to collect user fees for agricultural quarantine and inspection (AQI) services.

In a final rule published in the Federal Register on December 9, 2004 (69 FR 71660-71683, Docket No. 04-042-1), and effective January 1, 2005, we established, for fiscal years 2005 through 2010 and beyond, user fees for each of the types of conveyances or persons to whom AQI services are provided, i.e., commercial vessels (watercraft), commercial trucks, loaded commercial railroad cars, commercial aircraft, and international airline passengers. The regulations provide specific information regarding the applicability of, and exceptions to, AQI user fees. As specified in 7 CFR 354.3, the user fees for these AQI services for fiscal year 2007 are as follows:

1 Not to exceed 15 payments in a calendar year (i.e., no additional fee will be charged for a 16th or subsequent arrival in a calendar year).

2 A prepaid AQI permit valid for 1 calendar year may be obtained for an amount 20 times the AQI user fee for each arrival ($105.00 from October 1, 2006, through September 30, 2007).

3 The AQI user fee may be prepaid for all arrivals of a commercial railroad car during a calendar year for an amount 20 times the AQI user fee for each arrival ($155.00 from October 1, 2006, through September 30, 2007).